Books written by Michael Mewshaw

Ad In Ad Out: Collected Tennis Articles of Michael Mewshaw 1982-2015

The only trouble, the doctor cautioned, was that the shot would wear off after an hour or so, and Connors would need to have a second ampoule of painkiller needled into his foot. Tournament director Bill Talbot objected that this was ...
Ladies of the Court: Grace and Disgrace on the Women's Tennis Tour

By the time a hair - tree in a tuxedo trundled out to midcourt , introduced Connors as “ the greatest male player in tennis history ” and Navratilova as “ the greatest woman athlete of the twentieth century , ” then roared , “ Let's get ...
Blackballed

I received a hefty bill from an outfit called Reptile - O - Gram when Latif shipped Gila monsters , no messages attached , to McEnroe , Lendl , Becker , and Connors . The lizard addressed to Connors made the evening news when it was ...
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

“It smells like Jimmie Trimble.” “Gore, you're drunk,” Howard said. “Go to bed.” Howard disappeared into his room, tarried half an hour, then as usual buzzed the intercom. Gore refused to answer it. Like Howard, I wondered how much of ...
PLAYING AWAY

PLAYING AWAY
If You Could See Me Now

Fitzgerald hopping a train east from Minnesota to Prince- ton,ThomasWolfe traveling north from the Carolinas to Harvard,Alfred Kazin catching the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan.After all, how did my dailyjaunt over the back roads ...
Money to Burn: The True Story of the Benson Family Murders

This placed the defense under an especially onerous burden. When Judge Hayes observed that this was a novel reason to justify the admission of hearsay, Dwight Brock broke into loud giggles. Nevertheless, the judge let Malone relate that ...
Life for Death

But Pettit maintained in his petition : the only other next of kin of H. Malone Dresbach is his aunt , Florence Ramsey of Hutchinson , Kansas . She filed her renunciation to administer the estate in favor of your petitioner and it is ...
The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

“In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I’ve ever read.” —Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of family dysfunction.
The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

Although they never managed to reconcile their differences completely, Conroy later urged Mewshaw to write about "me and you and what happened . . . i know it would cause much pain to both of us. but here is what that story has that none of ...
If You Could See Me Now: A Chronicle of Identity and Adoption

I might have maintained that the story had pur- sued me, not vice versa. I might have quoted the Greek adage that sto- ries happen to those who can tell them. I might have pointed out that there was something emblematically American ...
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

In a memoir of friendship that is filled with anecdotes about expat life in Italy, the author presents an irresistible insider account of his relationship with Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know.
Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Journey Across North Africa

When I went to the synagogue, I discovered that the guards hadn't, after all, rejected anybody. ... Then two new arrivals squeezed in—a plump French couple dressed in yellow Lycra racing gear with MARLY CYCLO stenciled on front.
Money to Burn

One year later, her surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Here is the story of what may have been a travesty of justice resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.
The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

“In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I’ve ever read.” —Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America’s poet laureate of family dysfunction.